Is there any way set a desired forward speed some type of cruise control

The speed can be set in the IOC Waypoints function.

See this tutorial:

Airspace Explor Posted at 2016-6-9 14:59
The speed can be set in the IOC Waypoints function.

See this tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watc ...

I believe the OP might be talking about the ability to set a cruise speed in manual flight mode (not waypoint flying). I too would find that a useful facility provided that it was very simple to exit "cruise" mode in an emergency  (maybe simply touching  the left stick could exit cruise mode). A cruise capability would free the user from having to watch/control the speed, enabling them to focus more on lateral movement and camera control. Maybe DJI-Ken or another rep could pass this on as a  feature request.

This will be an awesome feature!

vandruten Posted at 2016-6-9 21:48
This will be an awesome feature!

The one and only issue I can think of is that, currently, a safety feature of the drone is that letting go of all controls causes it to hover in place.   With cruise on, I can see a situation where the pilot puts the remote down to  take a phone call and forgets that he is on cruise. A way around this might be to auto disengage the cruise mode if there are no other RC controls pressed within, say, 10 seconds.

That does sound pretty good

JockC Posted at 2016-6-9 18:56
The one and only issue I can think of is that, currently, a safety feature of the drone is that le ...

True. I hope more newbies like myself will keep on learning about the user manuals, codes of conduct, rules & regulations, and be a responsible and reasonable pilot. We don't have to be pros, we just have to be wise. And I'm reminding myself of this.

All the great present and future features of a bird will only be as good as the one behind the RC. And I keep telling this to myself

I found my own previous post to be kind of boring.

But hey, cruise control voted!!

Here are my two cents, but for the Mavic:

- Open Intelligent Flights mode
- Select TapFly
- Select Free mode
- Select Speed
- Select a point slightly above the horizon and hit Go

Now the drone will fly in that direction, at a fixed speed, while you’re still able to control its orientation.